Television And Radio Quotes

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. … there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation – fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.’s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why – television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio “because the pictures were better.

The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.

But there is that certain something about wanting to do the will of God. If one is sincere and if one really wants to know what His will is, all one has to do is be quiet. Shut off the television and radio, and in that silence one will always hear that still small voice in one’s heart telling him what to do.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.